Airplanes Overhead
When you see an airplane flying over your house, do you ever think if someone in the plane is looking down on your house?
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Havesomefun2 · 56-60, M
@WonderGirl1 now where I live it’s the police
@WonderGirl1 As long as you’re not emitting lazer beams from them, it’s ok!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
No.
Though having said that, I have been the one looking down... at my brother's home!
My work occasionally meant having to travel to Scotland from the South of England, and usually by one of the regional air-lines. On one such flight, looking down as we were descending I recognised a distinctive landscape feature near his home, then briefly, between trees, their and their neighbour's houses themselves! Obviously you can't look vertically down from one, and our 'plane was perhaps a mile or so to its West.
On another, returning, I assumer our approach to Southampton Airport would be a gentle circle down over The Solent or New Forest, even right round the Isle of Wight. In fact our last turn was over the town and so tight that we banked to what felt like over 60º, and so low that it almost looked as our wing-tip would knock a few TV ariels off the house roofs below my window - on the inside so downwards side, of the turn. It was rather alarming!
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For my part safely on terra firma...
Apart from being aeroplanes or aircraft here, the vapour-trails show the commercial routes are some miles away at an altitude from which it would be impossible to see any details on the ground.
We see the occasional light 'plane, and more rarely military aircraft overhead, but do have lot of over-flying by helicopters from a training-base not far away. They can be noisy! Sometimes those big twin-rotor Chinook helicopters too - window-shaking things that they are.
If the occupants of any of even these low-altitude aircraft do bother to look down they would not see anything for me to worry about. They can't see vertically downwards from there anyway, only obliquely.
Though having said that, I have been the one looking down... at my brother's home!
My work occasionally meant having to travel to Scotland from the South of England, and usually by one of the regional air-lines. On one such flight, looking down as we were descending I recognised a distinctive landscape feature near his home, then briefly, between trees, their and their neighbour's houses themselves! Obviously you can't look vertically down from one, and our 'plane was perhaps a mile or so to its West.
On another, returning, I assumer our approach to Southampton Airport would be a gentle circle down over The Solent or New Forest, even right round the Isle of Wight. In fact our last turn was over the town and so tight that we banked to what felt like over 60º, and so low that it almost looked as our wing-tip would knock a few TV ariels off the house roofs below my window - on the inside so downwards side, of the turn. It was rather alarming!
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For my part safely on terra firma...
Apart from being aeroplanes or aircraft here, the vapour-trails show the commercial routes are some miles away at an altitude from which it would be impossible to see any details on the ground.
We see the occasional light 'plane, and more rarely military aircraft overhead, but do have lot of over-flying by helicopters from a training-base not far away. They can be noisy! Sometimes those big twin-rotor Chinook helicopters too - window-shaking things that they are.
If the occupants of any of even these low-altitude aircraft do bother to look down they would not see anything for me to worry about. They can't see vertically downwards from there anyway, only obliquely.
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@JimboSaturn Hmmmmm I never thought about that before but I think I'm going to, next time 😅
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@SW-User I don't even remember how I responded when I woke up but I think I was strangely calm in the dream or didn't have much time to freak out anyway. It's that moment when you freeze and realize what just happened and that you're in trouble. For a split second you hope it's too far from you for you to be able to tell it's directed at you and maybe you'll be missed. Then you realize that nope and that there's nothing you can do and it's pointless to even try. There was almost some kind of relief in it.
But I understand the thought of plane attacking you if you watch it from below despite that I had never witnessed any war or military conflict. I blame it on grandma's stories and movies from ww2 I saw as a kid.
But I understand the thought of plane attacking you if you watch it from below despite that I had never witnessed any war or military conflict. I blame it on grandma's stories and movies from ww2 I saw as a kid.
Rickichickie · 56-60, F
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JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@samueltyler2 Precisely! !
Havesomefun2 · 56-60, M
@samueltyler2 I think that they imagine things
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@CrazyMusicLover apartments ya I never thought of that. My old workplace was near the airport and they would fly low too
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bijouxbroussard · F
@JimboSaturn I could see that, in the abstract. A couple of jets flew over several months ago, and that felt so close like they could’ve landed on our roof. It was weird. I think I posted something about it.
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@bijouxbroussard I live next a road called Airport Road near Toronto Canada so they do tend to fly over my house a lot
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@JimboSaturn I can understand that even though I have taken no more than about a dozen return flights, and only one of them was abroad. The rest were internal and of only about an hour air-time each way.
I have experienced slightly similar thoughts when on a train, probably because I travel by train rarely and as in an aeroplane, you are somewhat insulated from the rest of the world you are seeing from an unusual angle.
From the air you see everything broadly with no fine details, in a context many miles wide. From a train you see people's back gardens, the rear of businesses, a view of roads and traffic very different from your experience as motorist and pedestrian, farmland a long way from the public roads, the scenery generally; but in a more confined context.
The aircraft flies at anything from 200 to 400 knots but the ground far below seems to pass slowly. From a conventional passenger-train moving at anything from 70 to 120mph, the foreground is a fast-moving blur; but its slowing through the suburbs on approaching the station lets you study all those lineside lives!
(On one journey, travelling along the flank of the beautiful Avon valley towards Bath (SW England), a gap in the trees gave me a very brief glimpse of a figure sun-bathing prone on the river bank, some distance below the railway. I am sure it was both female and nude...)
I have experienced slightly similar thoughts when on a train, probably because I travel by train rarely and as in an aeroplane, you are somewhat insulated from the rest of the world you are seeing from an unusual angle.
From the air you see everything broadly with no fine details, in a context many miles wide. From a train you see people's back gardens, the rear of businesses, a view of roads and traffic very different from your experience as motorist and pedestrian, farmland a long way from the public roads, the scenery generally; but in a more confined context.
The aircraft flies at anything from 200 to 400 knots but the ground far below seems to pass slowly. From a conventional passenger-train moving at anything from 70 to 120mph, the foreground is a fast-moving blur; but its slowing through the suburbs on approaching the station lets you study all those lineside lives!
(On one journey, travelling along the flank of the beautiful Avon valley towards Bath (SW England), a gap in the trees gave me a very brief glimpse of a figure sun-bathing prone on the river bank, some distance below the railway. I am sure it was both female and nude...)
SkeetSkeet · 100+, F
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@SkeetSkeet Yes someone could be eating a popsicle, another having an affair macrosvosmic shit